This thing called zadelhoes

Amazing opportunity. Zadelhoezen or bike seat covers, are often placed on the seats of bikes parked in public places as advertisement for various companies/causes. These precious covers are alternatively coveted, saved, stolen, used and reused, but it seems like most of those advertising through this medium are design challenged. There is a great opportunity for graphic designers and design forward thinking companies alike to get their name out there...

Moscow times

In Moscow we spent a lot of time in Inara's kitchen. It was our gathering point and home base. Every morning I woke up to a banquet of cottage cheese, berries and other delicious food. Yulia's friend Genya took some great pictures, and here they are, thanks to Yulia for scanning.


Inara


Yulia and tea cups

Nerds

Yulia and Onno

Vijf bij Vijfeest

Another year rolls by. I hope I'm this suave by the time I'm 26...

Eve: I’m Eve Kendall. I’m twenty-six and unmarried. Now
you know everything.
Roger: Tell me. What do you do besides lure men to their
doom on the Twentieth Century Limited?
Eve: I’m an industrial designer.

--

Lieve vriendjes,

Ik ben bijna een kwart eeuw oud!! Daarom wil ik graag mijn verjaardag vieren op een fijne (hoop ik) zondag in mijn nieuwe buurt.

Programma, Zondag 23 Augustus
- 17:00 Eten (Rochussenstraat 297A, Rotterdam)
- 21.30 Klassieker North by Northwest (I <3>

Life etc, moving to Rotterdam!

After a few days of anxious waiting, we got the house in Coolhaven. I'm very excited to move, but it seems like we first have to complete an endless amount of paperwork. I'm guessing that it will take us another week before we get the keys to the kingdom. I already packed some bags and have been rearranging furniture in my head.



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I will miss my roommates, and I'm sad that I will have to say goodbye to this great blackberry patch I only recently discovered with Inga and Alexander. The result was 3 occasions for blackberry-pie-bars: cooking with Inga, for Peet's 60th, and for my roommates.


I recommend this recipe from Buns In My Oven

Other than that, the weather has been extremely nice for the past couple of days. On Tuesday, I finally fixed my bike and biked to Rotterdam with Inga and Yulia for a yoga class. It's good to be friends with architects :] Wednesday, I tagged along with Yulia, Onno and their friend, Kamala on an evening trip to Wijk bij Duurstede. We walked around the old city center and ate Chinese food on the floor of an empty 500 year old house. The house was amazing, with nicely proportioned rooms, a charmingly overgrown garden, a small gnome sized window overlooking the garden from upstairs, and thick clay walls keeping out the summer heat. We stayed there until it got dark, scaring ourselves with ghost stories. I will post some more pictures, if I get them from Yulia...



Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede: the only one in the world that you can drive under and located on a dijk, according to Onno

This weekend Marcel is coming back from Columbia, and we'll be going to Solar Festival in Roermond. I'm excited for my first camping-style festival. In exchange for tickets, we'll help with building up the Pleereef and we will be required to wear ridiculous/awesome outfits. We leave tomorrow morning by bus...